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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

There have been two recent congressional investigations into the Planned Parenthood selling baby parts scandal.

Both were prompted by the Centre For Medical Progress (CMP)
undercover investigation, which caught Planned Parenthood officials
discussing how to illegally profit from selling baby parts. The first
report in December was by the Senate Judiciary Committee and now House
of Representatives Select Investigative Panel has published its report.
Neither investigation relied on the CMP undercover videos to come to
their conclusions.They carried out their own investigations —
interviewing officials and employees under oath and using the power of
subpoena to get their records.
What they found is horrifying and criminal. It’s disturbing that the
results have been virtually ignored in the mainstream media. So to fill
this gap, here are the top eight horrifying facts the mainstream media
doesn’t want you know about aborted babies bodies being sold for profit.

1) It’s wrong to say the pro-abortion crowd don’t value the disabled.Advanced Biosciences Resources (ABR) had a “technician” embedded at a
Planned Parenthood clinic who reportedly harvested and sold the skin of
a Down Syndrome baby for $325. Yes, that’s correct, in America today,
you can buy the skin of an aborted Down Syndrome child for $325. The
same baby’s leg was sold for $325.2) Selling baby parts is very profitable.To be clear, the law is unambiguous; it is illegal to make a profit
providing organs or any part of a human for research or medical
treatment.

But Planned Parenthood and their business partners made a lot of
money selling aborted baby body parts, according to the report. The
House investigation found one case where Stem Express harvested an
intact aborted baby’s brain at a Planned Parenthood clinic. They
reportedly paid Planned Parenthood $55 but sold the brain to a
researcher for over $3000 – that’s a 2,800% profit. Planned Parenthood
reportedly made their money on volume sales and “charitable donations”
from these body harvesting companies.The Senate investigation published invoices which showed in June 2014
ABR bought a fetus from Planned Parenthood for $60. From that one fetus
ABR “sold its brain to one customer for $325; both of its eyes for $325
each ($650 total) to a second customer, a portion of its liver for $325
to a third customer; its thymus for $325 and another portion of liver
to a fourth customer; and its lung for $325 to a fifth customer.”Then, the report says, they piled on fees for “disease screening” and
shipping. That one aborted baby reportedly brought the company $2,275.
The House Investigative Panel found Stem Express generally marked up the
baby parts by 400% to 600%.3) A bountiful harvestAnd “harvesting” is exactly what they were doing. The House
investigation uncovered how “technicians” would look at the patient list
in advance and try to sell the baby parts before the abortion. After
securing the advance sale (with its massive profits) the technician
would then be allowed to go and ask the pregnant woman to sign a consent
form.This is a huge ethical breach. The person seeking consent from a
vulnerable patient is supposed to be neutral in the process. In a letter
to HHS last June, the panel wrote: “The fact that StemExpress was
attempting to interest a customer in fetal body parts before an abortion
had taken place raises serious concerns that there may have been
coercion or undue influence upon the patient to consent to procurement”
(their emphasis).4) Sticks and stonesAnd like any other business, there can be frustrations between buyers
and sellers. The House Panel uncovered an email exchange between an
excited Stem Express “technician” and a researcher who wanted to know if
she could expect some parts the next day because she needed to book
time at a very expensive research machine. But a baby’s body is a
frustratingly fragile thing. Rather apologetically, the Stem Express
employee told the researcher he had a body but: “The calvarium [skull]
is mostly intact, with a tear up the back of the suture line, but all
pieces look to be there. The limbs, one upper and one lower, are totally
intact, with one upper broken at the humerus, and one lower broken
right above the knee. Please let me know if these are acceptable.”They were. The deal was done and a baby’s body, complete with a broken leg and arm, was shipped overnight to the researcher.5) Kermit Gosnell was not alone.If there is one thing the abortion defenders agree on, it’s that mass
murderer Dr Kermit Gosnell was a one-off, an aberration. In a Supreme
Court judgment referencing Gosnell, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
described him as “rogue.”Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic explained most people believe
“Gosnell is an aberration that says nothing larger about abortion in
America.”

And Slate writer William Saletan described Gosnell as an “outlier.”But then you read the House Investigation Report. They have
interviewed, taken evidence, and secured affidavits from employees and
patients of a Texas abortion doctor (whose name they have redacted). I
have made a movie and written a book about Kermit Gosnell and his
30-year killing spree, and the similarities with this Texas doctor are
shocking.According to one employee, the doctor would perform around 40 late
second- or third-trimester abortions every week. Of these abortions,
“three to four infants would show signs of life.” And just like Gosnell,
the doctor would immediately kill them, according to the testimony. The
employee said he employed Gosnell’s techniques of “snipping the
infant’s spinal cord with scissors.”However, he reportedly also cut the neck with Sopher forceps:
“twisting the infants head: using forceps… or his finger to crush the
‘soft spot’ of the infant’s head.”Sometimes the doctor would also kill by crushing the stomach of the
child or “inserting his finger down the throat,” according to the
testimony.And just like Gosnell – the doctor reportedly would manipulate
ultrasounds to make babies appear smaller so he could perform illegal
late-term abortions. And just like Gosnell, he had unqualified staff
administering drugs and carrying out abortions, according to the report.6) Planned Parenthood HQ accused of conspiring to break the law.After the baby selling scandal broke, Planned Parenthood told the
media they had a policy that prevented their affiliates from profiting
from the process. But they didn’t mention that they had brought the
policy in just as the CMP scandal developed. In fact, this report
suggests a “criminal conspiracy” over their failure to have guidelines
before this.According to the Senate Judicial Committee report, in 2001 Planned
Parenthood did have a policy stating its clinics had to have an
independent accountant verify they were not profiting from the sale of
body parts. Those who did not follow these guidelines could be thrown
out of the Planned Parenthood network, they were warned. In 2011, when
they found their clinics were ignoring the guidelines, Planned
Parenthood quietly deleted the guidelines from its requirements. By
doing so, Planned Parenthood headquarters made it quite clear they would
not stand in the way of their clinics profiting from the sale of baby
parts.Or, as the Senate Committee put it, by behaving “in a manner that
facilitated the continuation of those fetal tissue payments. Planned
Parenthood and the affiliates actions may implicate the federal criminal
conspiracy statute 18USC/ 371.”7) Privacy for thee and not for mePlanned Parenthood and the companies it was selling baby parts to
fought tooth and nail against the investigations. They claimed privacy
was an issue. But the House Investigation states they never cared about
privacy when there was a lot of money to be made selling the body parts
of their patients’ babies. They would regularly give confidential
information about their patients to help the companies plan their
harvesting in advance, the report says. And Stem Express would
reportedly share this information with clients so they could look at
what might be available and place advance orders.The committee said: “the [Planned Parenthood] abortion clinics did
not have a valid reason to provide, patients’ PHI [Protected Health
Information]. Instead the abortion clinics shared patients’ PHI with
Stem Express in furtherance of contractual agreements that financially
benefited StemExpress and the clinics.” They recommended an
investigation “and, if OHRP agrees that [privacy] violations occurred,
to take all appropriate actions.”8) Planned Parenthood falsely claimed to help cure AIDS.Yes, you read that right – in order to convince women to allow them
to harvest their baby’s body parts, the Planned Parenthood consent form
told the vulnerable women that the parts had been used to find a cure
for AIDS.As a Planned Parenthood official admitted under oath to the House
investigation, “there is no cure for AIDS. So that is probably an
inaccurate statement.”They also reportedly misled clients about what they were actually
harvesting. The consent form only described “pregnancy tissue” — not a
baby’s arms, legs, eyes, brains, and skin.